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4 Oct 2019
Edwin Lutyens Symposium
Architects and artists explore the life of Edwin Lutyens
‘Where Function Ends‘, Hestercombe, Taunton, Somerset, England

Symposium Friday 11 October

Exhibition until 27 October
Experts and practitioners of art and  architecture will come together to explore the life and work of the architect Sir Edwin Lutyens for a symposium at Hestercombe, Taunton on Friday 11 October.
The symposium takes place in the context of the exhibition Where Function Ends which responds to the legacy of Lutyens, and marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of the man whose designs transformed the Hestercombe site.
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The Formal Garden at Hestercombe, built for the Portman family between 1904 and 1908, is one of the finest and most ambitious examples of Lutyens? garden design partnership with Gertrude Jekyll.

Symposium speakers include:

Lutyens expert Charles Hind, Chief Curator of Drawings at the Royal Institute of British Architects and trustee of the Lutyens Trust.
Niall Hobhouse who established a working collection of drawings, sketchbooks and models dating from the sixteenth century to the present, which is at the core of the work of Drawing Matter, a public forum for examining architectural d...